"Here, let me shoot you in the lower leg, than the upper leg." I see your point, however. I'm just saddened that FB can get away with the BS of selling personal data, when I just read the summary of another article on slashdot saying that the majority of Apple's privacy policy was shot down due to being incompatible with German law. And then, thinking that there are no such user protections in the US, because "MERICA! REGULATION BAD!!!!!! OOGA BOOGA!"

It sounds like the only people they're going to end up annoying are the ones that don't have the tech savvy to either write an extension, or even know that there are many pre-built to choose from.

This was my thought process. That or SocialFixer will take them away. Either way, I'm not going to be bothered by those ads.

Depends upon whether or not the law says that the act of unlocking is illegal, or the posession of an unlocked phone. I don't know either way.

I'll believe it when the bill hits the President's desk. I get the distinct feeling that heaps and heaps of special-interest is going to quickly rush toward DC.

Ta-da! Pretty sure we addressed the gaping hole of the article.

I think Johan Gutenberg is rolling in his grave.

I find it funny that he says:

Perhaps he missed the part where the bills he supported were trying to abridge our rights as citizens to further the corporate interests of major media companies.

50? I'm interested to see where that number comes from, and see how badly unrelated some of the bills are that are getting tacked onto.

Does nobody know what "misinformation" means? The provisions in the law will show up again, likely tacked onto unrelated bills that will get shot through Congress. I agree with a poster above: They were stupid enough to pass it all at once. They won't make the same mistake again.

Because someone who is that obvious about wearing an anti-TSA shirt will *totally* be the one who's going to not draw suspicion so they can bomb a plane....riiiight...

I, personally, like using Code::Blocks (http://www.codeblocks.org/) as a C++ IDE. It's multi-platform, so if you're collaborating with others, it won't matter which OS they're on: You can pass your project\code files with ease. I've also found it to be more straightforward than Visual Studio, fewer options means it can do less, but I've never found Code::Blocks to be lacking any feature that I needed. Additionally, it is open sourced, so if there was a bug found, or a feature missing that you want to correct, it's open for that.

Real techies use a hammer, chisel, and a slab of granite. This way, when someone tells you "backup" in reference to your documents, odds are it means that you should back up, lest your toes get squashed when the document falls over.

I agree, they appear to be subscribing to the Facebook school of interface redesign: "Improve" the interface. The interface comes across as a waste of space, somehow... The bar at the top doesn't go away, second as annoying as ads that do the same thing. I don't want to knock the developers and make it sound like all of their work was in vain, but I would have appreciated the Youtube approach: Roll out a new interface with an option to choose the old one long enough to allow feedback on the IU and not make it a situation of "It's new, you have to use it, good luck."